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by badloginagain
3447 days ago
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I encourage you to keep writing, but it seems you need more research into developer patterns if you want to contribute to an already highly discussed topic. For instance, last month this article[1] gave some seriously good insights to developer checkin frequency based on hard data. It provides a lot more value than the anecdotal, muddy definitions of over/under/engineer. [1] - https://blog.gitprime.com/check-in-frequency-and-codebase-im... |
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That's a very interesting article. However, it does seem suffer from the same issues Joel outlined, namely, the measure of attributes of a commit can be gamed and worked towards to achieve a "prolific" or "senior" status.
What the article you linked does reinforce is the value of iterative development. As opposed to doing large infrequent commits, doing small bits of work more frequently causes a success higher or "impact".
I would say that the article provides a data driven approach to justifying the effectiveness of good iterative planning. However, it doesn't address whether the commits of the "senior" engineer or the "prolific" engineer are of high quality.